Summary of Our Community Empowerment Projects

By supplying an individual with the means that offers hope for a better future you can move an individual from welfare to being self supportive. We cannot afford to have our children grow up with out a productive and safe future for themselves and for their children. We must provide individuals in need with affordable housing, education, healthcare, employment opportunities, resources and support required to make a positive difference in their lives. We Must Offer HOPE!

By working with federal & local governments, churches, corporations, private individuals, and other local organization to obtain the real estate for these humanitarian projects in order to reduce overall project and construction cost. Because our construction technologies does not require union workers and skilled labor construction cost are greatly reduced. By using unskilled labor for 90% of the construction of these projects will create badly needed jobs in communities.

The project’s goal is to provide assistance and support to those that are in need, in form of:

• Affordable housing for:
• Unwed mothers
• Low income housing
• Welfare participants (from welfare to employment program)
• Educational opportunity participants
• Basic affordable healthcare
• Affordable education (to help individuals secure employment and help supply humanitarian projects with ongoing funding)
• Basic and adult education
• Technical education
• Business education
• Job placement services (locally, regional, nation wide and international)
• Career counseling
• After school youth programs
• Affordable business support services (locally, regional, nation wide and international services to help supply the project and community with funding and economic growth)
• Transfer of technology
• Small business incubation support and services
• Internet and communication services
• Computer assembly and repair
• Computer sales and rentals
• E-Commerce services
• Economic development

We are dedicated to finding viable solutions to problems that individuals are faced with. That is why with clear consciousness and with heart we must offer a solution that has a chance of working.

The Community Empowerment Centers

The Community Empowerment Center (CEC) is designed to be a multi-functional facility that provides the opportunities for individuals to elevate themselves via a truly supportive business, education and health-oriented environment. This is achieved with a goal towards betterment of their lifestyle and for individuals seeking to improved business products/services and customer relations. This overview outlines the services, products and profitability of those services to demonstrate the Community Empowerment Center is a completely self sustainable community project with a strong revenue margin to guarantee it’s success in any community.

We have developed three (3) different styles of Community Empowerment Centers to demonstrate the diversity of this type of facility. We are confident that this type of facility will benefit just about any large community that we are devoting all of our resources to continue to design and develop better facilities to accommodate the diverse communities around the globe. The three basic facilities that we will cover are as follows.

1. The Inner City Community Empowerment Center, which is perfect for large communities found in the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, Russia, and other development countries.
     

2. The Regional Community Empowerment Center, which offers an expanded educational center and business services. This facility can be designed to offer temporary housing for students while attending school.

Each of these facilities can be customized to accommodate the needs of any community, state or country. The Community Empowerment Centers are designed to be self-supporting and requires no additional funding for day-to-day operations.

These Community Empowerment Centers were designed with benefiting the community as its primary focus. To offer a variety services to a community with the ability of future growth. The centers will offer a great deal of opportunity for those in need. There cannot be positive change unless we can offer affordable housing, education, employment opportunities, basic healthcare and economic development.

The Community Empowerment Center addresses many problems in communities today, by offering real solutions. Solutions that addresses an individual’s needs for affordable education, job placement, career counseling, business services, recreation, fitness, advanced technology, communications, after school youth programs, and a hall for community meetings. These centers are designed to be linked together via the Internet in order to share and expand on education and business services, thus increasing the potential of how the Community Empowerment Center can benefit a community.

The Community Empowerment Center

The Community Empowerment Center (CEC) facility is perfect for struggling communities, which is lacking technology, education, and community resources. This facility is designed to stimulate economic development and offer a wide range of opportunities for the local community tap into. An individual trained at the CEC prepares them to compete in the local and international job market.

This Community Empowerment Center can be customized to offer a diverse variety of services to accommodate individual communities. This center is designed to stimulate economic and academic growth to developing and third world communities.  With multiple Community Empowerment Centers world wide, creates an international network supporting advance education, small business growth and employment opportunities. The center will provide:

Community Empowerment Center Modules
The basic Community Empowerment Center is comprised of 4 modules: the Educational Center (EC), the Business Center (BC), the Community Hall (CH) and the Recreational Center (RC). This CEC is designed with an inner courtyard with a reflection pool and fountain.

This design philosophy allows our architects flexibility a variety of configurations of the modules to be assembled to accommodate the needs of a community. The main focus of this center is to empower the community on many levels. International Funding Group Trust deploys professional teams in the field to build and setup these centers and housing projects, after which a small team remains for about six month to train local individuals to run and operate the centers. After which International Funding Group Trust oversees the center to maintain quality services and to insure its success, while allowing the local community to develop the center to the needs of the community.

The Educational Center (EC) primary goal is to offer professionally instructor lead courses to train individuals in various levels of proficiency in basic education, adult education, business management and technical education. The Educational Center offers a wide range of business and computer software and hardware courses to help individuals succeed in their careers. The EC contains a community-involved After School Youth Center that is focused on help students of all ages, in improving their grade point average and for individual attention in study programs. The EC offers local, national, regional and international job placement assistance.

The Business Center (BC) is primarily a business incubator with its business suite rentals; business support services to assist small business startups and home based businesses. The BC offers meeting rooms, conference rooms, telecommunications, teleconferencing, Internet video conferencing, fax, mail, secretarial, business management support, copying, and commercial printing services. The BC includes a high bandwidth Internet café, computer rentals, office equipment rentals, graphic productions, presentations, technical support and professional computer retail sales. Weather an individual requires complete support for business startup or if they are a professional seeking business services for out of town meetings the BC has everything they require to conduct professional business. The BC promotes and supports economic growth, which translates to even more local jobs.

The Student Housing (ST) is unit made up of about 35 single efficiency apartments for temporary student housing. It offers private living quarters and bathrooms for each student; plus shared common areas that offer community kitchen, dinning, laundry room and showers. The CEC can be expanded to 60 to 90 additional efficiency apartments for student housing.

The Community Hall (CH) is a large auditorium for community organizations to meet, lectures and social events such as banquets. This center is equipped with restrooms and a well-stocked kitchen with all the modern appliances. The CH has a stage with state of the art sound systems and LCD projection system for professional presentations.

The Inner Courtyard (IC) is a large central common area of the Community Empowerment Center with a large reflection pool and waterfall. This area is equipped with outdoor electrical and sound systems for community events.

After School Youth Center (ASYC)

The CEC After School Youth Center coordinates after school programs and activities for youth 9-17 years of age. The After School Youth Center is not a baby-sitting or childcare facility, but a dedicated youth program to improve the quality of life for the children in the community. This center is to improve personal development skills in all youth by offering programs and services in the areas of academics, computer technology, employability skills, personal enrichment, improved study skills, life skills, and recreation, for high-risk youth and others.

The academic program provides training in literacy, math, science, computers, Internet, business administration, counseling, testing services, life skills and other fundamentals, and promotes academic achievement, sound critical achievement, strong moral and ethical values, and behaviors.

The CEC After School Youth Center is in partnership with other community organizations, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Out Reach, Upward Bound, Outward Bound, Big Brother, Big Sister, Boys Club, Girls Club, YM, YWCA, local churches, foundations and local and federal government agencies.

The CEC After School Youth Center combined with the total resources of the Community Empowerment Center, allows a variety of resources and opportunities for the success of creating and maintaining successful youth programs.   Programs available include but are not limited to:

Community Empowerment Programs
Empowerment programs are designed to empower unemployed individuals with the necessary skills to either find employment or change careers through additional training and support. Because of the ever-changing economy it is becoming paramount that individuals prepare for those economic changes, which can effect employment in inner cities. By receiving elementary education that is important to securing employment or pursuing reeducation for a second career when one fails has become increasingly important for survival in these economically challenging times. Below are some of the basic educational courses the Community Empowerment programs can offer.

Outline of General Community Services Offered at the Center
Below is an outline on the areas that International Funding Group Trust and its Solution Partners can supply to the success of the Community Business and Technical Training Center. By offering the business administration, engineering, technical, creative services, educational and community support required to make a humanitarian project a success.

With economic recession threaten the way of life on a global level it is even more important that we invest in viable programs with the proper technologies to promote health growth through opportunities.  Programs that self-sustainable with out the need of ongoing funding and a financial drain on local governments and communities.

The Inner City Community Empowerment Center

With the rapid accelerating information age and the cut backs/elimination of traditional jobs due to economic recessions in the United States and abroad it has become everyone’s concern of what security does the future hold. It is important that each individual have access to vital resources to help secure a better future in these troubled times. The new reality and trend is “Independence”, independence to elevate oneself by improving the quality of life through business opportunities, advanced education, technology and support in entrepreneurial endeavors.

The Community Empowerment Center (CEC) addresses many problems in communities today, by offering real solutions. Solutions that addresses an individual’s needs for affordable education, job placement, career counseling, business services, recreation, fitness, advanced technology, communications, after school youth programs, and a hall for community meetings.  As you will notice with the general Community Empowerment Center floor plan below and the diverse amenities the center will offer to a community.

The Regional Community Empowerment Center

This facility offers an expanded educational center and business services. This facility can be designed to offer temporary housing for students while attending school.   This center boasts a full size advanced education complex with 20-classrooms, basic healthcare and business center.

This facility was designed to accommodate a higher level educational need for a community. This facility was created to work in a third world country to train and educate a larger number of people in a region. The focal point to this facility has a two story educational center with 20 classrooms. Which would actively educate 240 students per-day, 1,200 students a week, 4,800 students per-month, and 57,600 students per year in technical and business related courses. If temporary housing is needed the structure will accommodate an additional floor for student housing or a second structure can be built for student housing.  Below is an Advanced Community Empowerment Center Facility Floor Plan.

All Projects Designed By MNL Consulting, LLC (www.mnlconsulting.com)